Charity urges aid for sinking cities
Governments must provide “major” investment in flood risk reduction to save coastal cities around the world, a charity ...
Wind turbines contribute to climate change: study
Wind turbines, designed as an alternative to fossil fuels, still contribute to climate change due to the way they redistribute heat ...
Kulbhushan Jadhav case to be heard by ICJ in Feb 2019
Islamabad/Hague Oct 4: The public hearing of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court, will be ...
Modi receives Champions of the Earth award for enviornmental policy leadership
New Delhi, Oct 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received the United Nations’ highest environmental honour, the ...
World Court orders US to lift sanctions on humanitarian goods’ import by Iran
The Hague, Oct 4: The International Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered the US to ease its sanctions on Iran and said exports of ...
EU warns Facebook not to lose control of data security
Luxembourg, Oct 3: The EU’s top data privacy enforcer expressed worry Tuesday that Facebook had lost control of data security ...
SBI vows to become plastic free organisation in one year
New Delhi, Oct 3: State Bank of India (SBI) on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary pledged to become a ...
Police fire tear gas, water cannon to break up farmers’ protest
New Delhi: Police on Tuesday fired teargas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading ...
Physics Nobel for laser pioneers
Stockholm: A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in ...
WHO plays down risk to Indian children from tainted polio vaccine
Mumbai: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that there was minimal risk of children contracting the polio virus in ...